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Women entrepreneurs are helping one another expand their businesses as well. Sue Ling Gin, 47, a self-made real estate millionaire who runs an airline-food company in Chicago, discovered that a group of ambitious single mothers and other tenants in the city's LeClaire Courts housing project had formed a small company that prepares meals, mostly for local day-care centers. When Gin decided to bid on a $38 million food-and-beverage contract for fast-growing Midway airport, she offered the LeClaire group a 15% interest in the venture. If Gin wins the contract, the LeClaire operation will...
Panda mania ! All New York turns out for China' s newest ambassadors, Ling Ling and Yong Yong, as they settle into the Bronx...
WELCOME TO NEW YORK, PANDAS, said a handmade sign held up by one of several dozen waiting schoolchildren. HELLO, LING LING AND YONG YONG, said another. And even more to the point: NEW YORK IS THE PANDAS! Before Ling Ling (Ringing Bell), the male half of the team, and Yong Yong (Forever and Ever) go home at the end of October -- they are on loan from the Peking Zoo for only six months -- an estimated 2 million people (2,000 an hour) will have seen and no doubt fallen in love with them. "There's something special about pandas," says...
...Washington, the only U.S. city that has pandas on permanent exhibit, schoolchildren send them yearly valentines. When the female (also named Ling Ling) fell ill in 1982, she received thousands of get-well cards; some admirers tearfully called for the latest word on her condition. China lent a pair to the Los Angeles Zoo in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics; attendance more than doubled, and pandamaniacs endured three-hour waits. San Francisco's zoo, where the couple went next, saw attendance jump...
...Ling Ling, Yong Yong and the other actors in what might be called China's Traveling Panda Act -- two more will be lent to the Netherlands' Beekse Bergen park this month -- are meant to do more than entertain. Pandas also carry a message: they are an endangered species with a bleak future. Only a few, 700 or so, still roam the mountains of central China, and there are not enough in zoos to ensure their survival...